food

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Tue Nov 6 00:12:37 2001

It was only here in America that eating, garlic, tomatoes, vegetables, etc. was
considered risky or inappropriate at after WW1.

That's what was under discussion.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chad Fernandez" <fernande_at_internet1.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 10:02 PM
Subject: food


>
>
> Richard Erlacher wrote:
> > Americans have always been somewhat "strange" about their diet,
>
> How? I've never seen anything that I thought was strange. We don't eat
> anything that is still alive, or wiggles, or whatever. Our food is
> pretty basic, with the exception maybe of some fancy stuff.... but a lot
> of that is foreign influence.
>
>
> > but that's just
> > human nature. My brother's wife and kids won't readily eat anything that's
not
> > sold at the "Golden Arches" though it can come from Burger King. It's awful
to
> > watch those now teenaged boys' (and their mother's) poking and prodding at
the
> > fine meals my now 80+ year-old mother painstakingly prepares in an effort to
> > expose them to old-world cuisine.
>
> That's because the kids were raised poorly (food wise). I have a set of
> cousins like that...... last Thanksgiving the boy ate only Biscuits!
> There diets consist of mainly carbs, and sugar!
>
> American food tends to be over processed nowadays, too.
>
> Chad Fernandez
> Michigan, USA
>
>
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